The article continues with: Artworks from the estate of the late actor Dennis Hopper, will be auctioned by Christie’s on Nov. 10 and 11 in New York. In a press release, Christie’s quoted Hopper saying: “I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography was all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way and I have had some fun. It has not been a bad life.”

The collection includes work by Warhol and Basquiat. Christies reports the collection is expected to sell for more than $10 million. “It’s an artist’s collection, it’s not the collection of a banker or mogul. It’s the collection of a creative artist,” said Marc Porter, chairman of Christie’s Americas.

Sale highlights:

Warhol’s 1971 “Portrait of Dennis Hopper,” representing the actor as a soulful cowboy in blues and grays. The 40-inch-square canvas is expected to sell for as much as $1.2 million.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s densely filled 1987 “Untitled,” in acrylic, oil stick and graphite, has a high pre-sale estimate of $7 million. The painting had hung in the living room of Hopper’s Frank Gehry-designed Venice Beach, California, home. Hopper said in a 1999 interview that he had paid $17,000 for the painting around 1988, just before Basquiat’s death. Hopper claims he was offered $1 million for the same painting two months after Basquiat’s death.

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